A pill to make you wake up on time? Maybe

One New Jersey-based business is saying it can. Rise-N-Shine is selling “Wake Up On Time” pills, vitamin-like capsules that dissolve over a seven or eight-hour period. Along with other supplements, the pills contain guarana seed extract which has high levels of caffeine.

NewJersey.com asked Louis Teichholz of the Hackensack University Medical Center if the pill could really work, and here’s what he said:

“I can’t say whether it works or doesn’t work, but if it does, it’s probably from the guarana,” Teichholz said. “If you’re going to use it, I would recommend doing so with caution because the caffeine may cause higher blood pressure in people who already have high blood pressure and it could cause palpitations.”

Rise-N-Shine also sells pills called “Stay Up All Day,” “Go Away Gray,” “MenoPAUSE Chill Pills” and “Royal Flush.” I’ll let you guess what the last one does.

The wake-up pills have been getting a lot of publicity lately, and the timing couldn’t be better for Rise-N-Shine. Some studies suggest people sleep more during winter months to help cope with darker evenings and mornings.

My advice? Just embrace oversleeping. Trying to eat toast in the shower and guzzling coffee right out of the pot makes getting ready for work more fun.